..well it was for me. Our defensive effort was awesome but it had to be as we were struggling to get out of our half all night. Rarely have i seen such a dominant field position maintained all night as Bradford did last night so fair play to them. I have no complaints as the better team won. However i had my faith restored last night. The feeble submission to Crusaders was poor and the evidance that we can work on our faults and put them right was clear to see. We defended well we kicked a little better (we can still improve that skill though) and our commitment and entusiasm was maintained throughout. Attack wise we lacked composure but if we improve that area as well as we have our defensive efforts and maintain them then we may surprise a few. Catalans next week looks a good place to start

Pretty much agree with all of that. Cashmere is a big miss - and our lack of forward power (certainly in comparison to Bradford) was more than evident last night. But like yourself I would be more than happy to see a team offering tough defence (as in the best of the Harrison years) and scrapping for points at the other end.

We are short of cash so don't have the squad of others, but despite the lack of points I think last night was a top effort. Bring on Catalans! (and let's hope Bosc is still out!)

We lost last night due to individual errors - I think we must have turned the ball over at least 5 times! Then a couple of stupid penalties - Talau mouthig off at the ref - just gifted Bradford points and territory.

But defensively we looked much sounder than the last home game - and unlike another poster on here, I'm with Dennis Betts "defenses win matches" - you cannot win if you are always chasing the game - you must first be able to restrict the opposition and we did that last night - the "dropsy" let us down

Everytime we lost the ball in a potential try scoring position we were chanting "RED ARMY" I think we should leave that out next week

On topic agree totally with the OP. Even though we lost I came away with a much better feel good factor following a strong defensive performance. Yeah Bulls aren't the team they used to be, but you can only play whats in front of you. And their Halfback pairing were stretching us all night. It was just a lack of composure and confidence which stopped us from getting on the scoreboard. I also think that the positiveness form the shed had a huge impact. Heads didn't go down when things were going against us. There also seemed to be a look of disbelief from the team when we clapped and cheered them off.

Fingers crossed now for a similar effort with the minor problems ironed out after a good weeks training. And hopefully another good night of support from the Salford faithful.

Overall pleased with our effort last night, the game was won with Bradford kicking game for 80 minutes they kicked us right back into the corners followed with a good chasing game.
Thought Jody Broughton played a good solid game having been put under pressure quite a lot, Fitz had a good game at full back, & in the forwards Adamson, Swain & Sibbit impressed. Like to see Jeremy Smith given more game time, we have more attaching options when he replaces Alker.
Holdsworth, Ratchford combination did work that well last night but I can understand the reason for trying these two together.

I saw signs last night of improvement in our kicking game but we need to be more off the cuff when on there line, we made it easy for Bradford to defend although we must give them some credit for there defence last night.

Overall pleased as our defensive game last night, overall it was a top performance, great to see the Salford faithful get behind the team, I am sure it helped the players, hopefully there should be no reason we cannot win next week hopefully with Cashmere back.